{"title":"More than words: Comics als narratives Medium für Mehr-als-menschliche Geographien","authors":"V. Schröder","doi":"10.5194/gh-77-271-2022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-77-271-2022","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. Human-animal relations are often experienced viscerally. These corporeal, affective, sensual and emotional realities cannot easily be put into words and adequately expressed through linear and textual forms. For this reason, this paper investigates the potential of comics in more-than-human geographies. It identifies three different ways of how geographers approach this field of research and communication: (1) comic analysis, (2) comic semiotics and (3) comic practice. In their comic drawings geographers try to make specific viewpoints, moments, emotions and relations visible that have been underexposed either socio-politically or in terms of scientific practice. The article then discusses more-than-human qualities of comics, arguing that graphic narratives emerge as productive tools to reveal „the\u0000in_between“ of humans and nonhumans. It further describes an exemplary approach to a collaborative comic and how visceral or nonverbal\u0000aspects in human-animal relations can be expressed and experienced, using\u0000the empirical study of returning wolves to Switzerland.\u0000","PeriodicalId":35649,"journal":{"name":"Geographica Helvetica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47644885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Family and space – an interpretive perspective on two central concepts in population geography","authors":"Giulia Montanari, Tino Schlinzig","doi":"10.5194/gh-77-255-2022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-77-255-2022","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. Introductory texts in population geography are often organized using a sociological approach to demography (Barcus and Halfacree 2018:2; Newbold 2014:6). This is particularly evident in discussions on the concept of family. Both sociology and geography center concepts like marriage, divorces, births, the number of children in a household, and the composition of households. However, many of these concepts are outdated,\u0000with limited value for understanding contemporary social change. As the\u0000editorial to this special issue suggests, population geography must look to\u0000other fields for concepts that describe subjects' meaning-making.\u0000Interpretive family studies' conceptual and methodological approaches can\u0000help reconfigure established assumptions about the term “population”\u0000(Gubrium and Holstein 1993; LaRossa and Reitzes 1993; Bösel, 1980; Burgess, 1926). While classic population geography research does engage with new mobility and flexibility regimes and pluralization tendencies, it often fails to identify their consequences for lived experiences and intergenerational relationships. This limits scholars' understandings of new living conditions and practices, as well as their consequences for central concepts of mobility, for example, co-presence, absence, relocation, and residential location. This also occurs with the concept of “family”, which is generally applied to mono-local nuclear families in a household unit. In this contribution, we draw on classic and contemporary interpretive research to (re-)evaluate the multi-locality of families and theories of co-presence to extend the concepts of family and space within population geography (see also Halatcheva-Trapp et al., 2019a). By transcending standard quantitative categories (e.g., the household, fertility, simplified models of mobility), we offer interpretive insights to better conceptualize an important topic in population geography – the family.\u0000","PeriodicalId":35649,"journal":{"name":"Geographica Helvetica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48887223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: <i>Berufseinstieg Geographie. Handwerkszeug für eine erfolgreiche Strategie</i>","authors":"H. Egli","doi":"10.5194/gh-77-253-2022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-77-253-2022","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>\u0000 </jats:p>","PeriodicalId":35649,"journal":{"name":"Geographica Helvetica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49298352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mistranslating refuge crops: analyzing policy mobilities in the context of Indian Bt cotton production","authors":"Katharina Najork, M. Keck","doi":"10.5194/gh-77-213-2022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-77-213-2022","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract. In light of recent pink bollworm (PBW) pest infestations in several\u0000cotton-producing states in India, farmers of genetically engineered Bt\u0000cotton (Bt for Bacillus thuringiensis) have faced fierce criticism for their noncompliance with the national\u0000insect resistance management (IRM) strategy. We argue that this criticism is\u0000short-sighted and one-dimensional. Building upon the literature on policy\u0000assemblages we show that the implementation of the IRM strategy in India was\u0000seriously flawed due to government-induced mistranslations of foreign\u0000strategies in the form of policy-diluting alterations. We first show that\u0000India's IRM strategy differs substantially from successful strategies\u0000pursued in the USA or China. Second, we present results from a\u0000representative survey in the state of Telangana (n= 457) and show that\u0000India's IRM strategy neglects moral economic considerations and\u0000entrepreneurial agricultural logic that Indian cotton farmers strive for. We\u0000conclude that pink bollworm pest infestations in India are not the fault of\u0000farmers but rather the result of a mismanaged biotechnology project\u0000undertaken by the Indian government and its associated responsible\u0000ministries.\u0000","PeriodicalId":35649,"journal":{"name":"Geographica Helvetica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46156523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Geografie del Mediterraneo Nero","authors":"Camilla Hawthorne","doi":"10.5194/gh-77-179-2022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-77-179-2022","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>\u0000 </jats:p>","PeriodicalId":35649,"journal":{"name":"Geographica Helvetica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42360922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vite postume del Mediterraneo e il ricordo della presenza Nera","authors":"Timothy Raeymaekers","doi":"10.5194/gh-77-207-2022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-77-207-2022","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p>\u0000 </jats:p>","PeriodicalId":35649,"journal":{"name":"Geographica Helvetica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47927539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}